Franziska Brantner MdB & Ekkehard Felder

Politicians are often accused of populism and hate, but also of whitewashing and trivialising. Informing, arguing and convincing has become more delicate before a basic tone of distortion and simplification.

What challenges do politicians have to face when they address a large, heterogeneous crowd of people? What choice of words, what tonality convey credibility? Are there self-imposed taboos? What linguistic reactions are required in political discourse in the case of “hate speech”, taboo breaking, discrimination?

In conversation are Franziska Brantner, Heidelberg member of the Bundestag for the Greens, and the linguist Prof. Ekkehard Felder from the German Department of the University of Heidelberg, who also runs the blog Semantic Competitions – Like Language, Like Thought.

In the series Local Monday

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